Overview

In the antebellum South, Kenda has grown up as a house slave at the Liston Plantation. Her constant companion, Jane Liston, the plantation owner's daughter, resents her family's status as slaveholders but in the deep south of 1860, little heed is paid to young women and even less so to their ideas. Jane and Kenda realize that what has grown between them has eclipsed childhood friendship but each feels powerless to act on those feelings. When one of their lives is threatened, they are forced to take action...but will the course they choose bring them together at last or keep them apart forever?